- [narrator] major funding for reel south was provided by the national endowment for the arts, etv endowment, and south arts. additional funding for "saint cloud hill" was provided by: [laid-back blues music] [musical vocalizing] ["man done wrong" by valerie june] ♪ [construction crane) [whistle blowing] [car engines whirring] - bearing the cross of many. just one man. i ain't nothing. i'm just a 115 pound crazy ass new yorker with a big mouth and a dangerous pen. that's all i got. [somber ambient music] ♪ [wood splitting] ♪ [people chattering] ♪ [wind billowing] having a hard enough time with that. the mirror was shaking. look at that. look at that all come off! vern, you could be next. - [laughs] yeah, okay. yeah. - i could get it from there. - hey, look what i found. - what'd you find? oh, i get my choice! - if you need, you can get all three of them if you need to. - oh, that's a pretty purple one. - yeah, purple. i'm sorry i didn't have a pink one for you. - i'll hold off on the purple. [birds chirping] oh look, timing's perfect. - hey! happy birthday! there's a meeting yesterday, i jus

- [narrator] major funding for reel south was provided by the national endowment for the arts, etv endowment, and south arts. [laid-back blues music] [musical vocalizing] ["man done wrong" by valerie june] ♪ - a garden without a spirit is like a human being without a soul. it just has no meaning. every plant has a story, just like every human being has a story, and the story needs to be told. ♪ when our work here is done ♪ and the life's crown is won ♪ and our troubles and trials ♪ are over ♪ all our sorrows will end ♪ and our voices will blend ♪ with the loved ones ♪ who have gone on before ♪ never grow old ♪ never grow old ♪ in a land where we'll never grow old ♪ ♪ never grow old ♪ never grow old ♪ in a land where we'll never grow old ♪ [gentle music] - [man] he was on the front end of the american curve as far as gardens, i mean, no one was at his level even close. - we're in a constant struggle to keep it back and control it, because that is where lies the genius in man is the ability to control nature but for one purpose only, and that is to create beauty. this entire canopy in which i

[nartor] mor fundi for reel sth waprovided by the natial endowment for the arts, etv endoent, and uth arts. [laid-back blues music] [musical vocalizing] ["man done wrong" by valerie june] ♪ [ambient orchestral music] ♪ [wind] [birds chirping] ♪ [foot steps] ♪ - life is so large or it can be that i think, besides just being very, very tired of my personal life was going to pieces, my second marriage was going to an end, the business was eating me alive. i just jumped and i'm so glad did. [dramatic music] [ingrid stepping] woo, o****! [heavy breathing and grunting] good one isn't it? i'm not yodeling but this is a really gorgeous rock. look at this. it's almost turquoise. we'd like it already. look at it. good rock. i have to admit to you that i've turned into a criminal, because in the national forest it's illegal to pick up rocks, and i do. i want this one. [rocks clanking] ha, got it! [ingrid laughing] you would think in this pile, you would find what you love, but it's not that easy. ooh, look at this. look at this one. ooh, that's nice. this one is lovable. i get excited of the big

. - [annouer] majo funding for "reel south" was provided by etv endowm ent, the national endowment for the ar ts center for asian-american media, and by south ar ts. [lively music] ♪ [hisng sou nd] [somber, hymnal music] ♪ - [burk] i believe good pictures, they start out perhaps with the mind, and an id ea. [cera shutr clicking] and if youe lucky,hat trslates to the art. and then all of that filters out through the eye. [camera shutter clicki ng] [somber, hymnal mu sic] ♪ [tin whistng] [somr, hymnamusic] ♪ when i fst wake ani stretcout, d i get the b e, i'm ill in tt kind o wonderl, semi-conscioust ate of sepndwake, an the ietness of it, allo the motn ofy feet tbr ing lo flow toy mi, into mhe t. omber, hnal mu c] so ts connecon happe it not onlmentaland emional ditation it's physicamediti on. [sber, hyml mu c] the's someing out doing portraits in whi the facis the ychologil landscape. the ce bareshe imint of te. the face and the eyes bare not only the charact er buthe joy a persos be in if it'not a brand nefrontier anit's cerinly isin theistory o art, 's probay a nefrontierwhich ch and